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Manufacturers, utilities, and oil & gas companies are using data and applications to improve business operations through smart manufacturing initiatives like Industrie 4.0.  To accomplish these benefits these companies recognize the need to converge their enterprise network and their factory net…

Opening the Gates to Intent-based Networking This is a guest post authored by Muninder Sambi, Senior Director of Product Management, Enterprise Networking Business. As I think about the transformation we, at Cisco, are trying to drive in the networking industry with intent-based Networking, I can’t…

I am a big fan of Simon Sinek, world renown leadership coach and author of award-winning books like “Start with Why”. One of his mantras is ‘If you want to lead, focus on your own areas of leadership!’ Building on this concept, how can you find adjacent opportunities building…

Rethinking Secure Technical Innovation to Enable Successful Business Outcomes Over the past 25 years I have been employed in the technology field, my non-technical friends often ask me, “How do you keep up with technology as things change so quickly?”  I argue that change isn’t as dramatic as they m…

Improve infrastructure security? Or improve infrastructure management? Why not both? These were the questions on the minds of the team at Solar, a leading European sourcing and services company with over 170 locations around the world. After the May 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack, Solar decided the…

Rumor has it there’s more to life than #teamcollaboration. Actually, I can confirm the rumor with just a few words: chocolate, puppies, and motorcycles. You’re welcome to fill in the blanks with your own evidence. But, I digress. Teamwork is absolutely important, but even if you come up with the bes…

As I prepared to participate in Accenture’s International Women’s Day in a session titled, “The Equality Advantage,” I reflected on the events in my life and career that led me to this point. Growing up, discussions in my family were never about gender. They involved ability and effort. I also had a…

HIMSS18 is now in our rear-view mirrors. As usual, it was a whirlwind of a week — one full of interesting and engaging exhibits and sessions that revealed the top trends and conversations in Health IT. Attendance this year set new records! As of Friday, HIMSS reported the official count at 43,979 pr…

We spend a lot of time talking about Wi-Fi coverage, SD-WAN tunneling, switching redundancy, etc., but the true measure of quality isn’t a perfectly deployed network… it’s an excellent user experience. As with all things, it’s often more difficult to diagnose the problem than to fix it. With more an…